When I was growing up in Asia, my mom practiced the following traditions every New Year:
collect twelve types of fruit – one type for each month of the year. The fruit had to be somewhat round (circle is a shape of money and prosperity) and should come in two’s (for fertility).
fill the larder, at least [...]
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You’ve seen him before. He is the little baby boy who wears nothing but nappies and a sash with a year written on it. He is called Baby New Year and in a couple of days he will be wearing a sash with “2009″ written on it. Where he comes from, how he came about, [...]
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A Pennsylvania woman has been making a habit of ringing in the New Year not with Champagne, but with a baby. For the second year in a row, Becky Armstrong has given birth on January 1. She’s also had the first babies born of the new year at Gettysburg Hospital, according to AP. Forget about the New Year’s birth dates, what’s probably the most amazing feat is that she’s had two kids within the space of a year. Whew, I have a feeling she’ll need a lot of Champagne by the time 2009 rolls around.
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Remember New Year?s Eve, before kids? I actually birthed a child 11 minutes after midnight on New Year?s Day 1999. Now that was a holiday to remember! That next year, I realized how close Christmas and New Year?s Day really are!
You remember?how the world was preparing for doomsday for Y2K? I was preparing for that [...]
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